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CI/CD freelance projects & contracts in Germany 2026

9.2% of the analysed German IT freelance listings name CI/CD – 4,775 projects, rank 1 of the 60 most requested IT skills. In October 2026 it was 8.3% (−0.2 percentage points from the month before). CI/CD is asked for most often in DevOps / Platform Engineer projects: they make up 24% of the engineering projects with CI/CD.

By . Data: 52,106 listings on German IT freelance project boards, May 2026 – October 2026. Published , last updated .

Is CI/CD required or nice to have?

68% of the listings with CI/CD name it as a required skill. That is about the median of the skills of this overview (69%). 17% name it as nice to have, 15% without a clear mark.

CI/CD demand by month

Share of listings with CI/CD per month of first publication, with the number of projects under each month; months with fewer than 1,000 projects are left out. Single months fluctuate.

  1. June 2026906 of 7,653 projects12%
  2. July 20261,002 of 9,884 projects10%
  3. August 2026760 of 10,216 projects7.4%
  4. September 2026937 of 10,958 projects8.6%
  5. October 20261,087 of 13,054 projects8.3%

Skills asked for together with CI/CD

The 15 skills that listings with CI/CD name most often besides it, as a share of those projects. Blue: typical for CI/CD, i.e. asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall; the tick shows the share across all projects.

Under each skill: its share across all projects.

  1. Kubernetesall projects 7.1%38%
  2. Dockerall projects 4.8%30%
  3. REST APIsall projects 7.3%29%
  4. Javaall projects 6.6%27%
  5. Gitall projects 5.1%27%
  6. Pythonall projects 6.9%26%
  7. Test Automationall projects 5%26%
  8. DevOpsall projects 4%25%
  9. Scrumall projects 8.1%23%
  10. Agile Methodsall projects 9.1%22%
  11. TypeScriptall projects 4.3%21%
  12. AWSall projects 4.1%20%
  13. Spring Bootall projects 3.7%18%
  14. Monitoringall projects 4.6%17%
  15. Infrastructure as Codeall projects 2.3%16%

Typical for CI/CD – asked for at least 3 times as often as in projects overall – are Infrastructure as Code (16%), Docker (30%), DevOps (25%), Git (27%), Kubernetes (38%), Test Automation (26%).

Frequent anyway and often part of it here: Scrum (23%), Agile Methods (22%).

Roles asking for CI/CD

91% of the projects with CI/CD are engineering projects (4,322 projects) – projects that build software or technical systems; the rest are e.g. consulting, project management or IT operations. The bars show the roles with the most of those projects and their share of them; 7.5% fit none of the major roles. Under each role: how many of its projects name CI/CD, and how often as required.

  1. DevOps / Platform Engineerin 51% of the role's projects · required 82%24%
  2. Java Backend Developerin 41% of the role's projects · required 64%12%
  3. Test Engineerin 28% of the role's projects · required 69%8.8%
  4. Data Engineerin 26% of the role's projects · required 70%7.7%
  5. Java Fullstack Developerin 37% of the role's projects · required 70%6.9%
  6. ML / AI Engineerin 27% of the role's projects · required 77%5.4%
  7. React Developerin 45% of the role's projects · required 52%4.3%
  8. Cloud Solution Architectin 38% of the role's projects · required 79%3.9%

Skills related to CI/CD

Skills of this overview that are asked for together with CI/CD much more often than chance would predict.

How to use the data

If CI/CD is in your profile, the blue skills often belong with it – name them if you have them. Projectmatch automatically matches new projects against your profile and shows for each project which of the required skills your profile covers. Browse current CI/CD projects or try it now.

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Method

An AI model reads the requested skills from each project description, and a project's role from its title and skills; the figures are updated monthly. Details: method of the IT skills analysis.